Re: switch between utf-8 and latin-1 (ARGH!!)

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Anselm Helbig ha scritto:
> You don't need another editor to do that. Just try to understand what
> emacs is doing here: when you added the line about the coding system
> emacs understood that you want the contents of the buffer saved with
> this coding system. Emacs can not know that the characters on screen
> are not what you want! So you first have to get to the point where
> Emacs has the correct notion about the coding system. Pascal already
> pointed you to `set-buffer-file-coding-system', 

This was not useful because it does not change the meaning of the 
caracters in the buffer. It only changes the encoding of the characters 
when saving to file.

> another way is to use
> `universal-coding-system-argument' (C-x RET c) immediately before
> opening a file.

...yes this was the right command to use...

thanks,
        E.